We have been using confluence for a few years. It is not free but it works very well. I have searched and searched for a personal wiki and have not found anything that comes close.
-- cwebber On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:57 PM, David Parter wrote: > > I know, there are a million to choose from. > > Here's the situation: > > Our faculty (and students) want wikis. And they would like us to > support their wikis. They haven't exactly said what that means, but we > can at least define a plausible service offering, and see if that > works. > > Currently we have a ton of different wikis, all in a state of > disrepair/not being maintained or secure, installed by individual > faculty and students. We want to do better. We *need* to do better. > > Some things we already know: > > 1) We think we want a wiki that stores content in a database, because it > decouples the content from the wiki code, makes migration and > upgrades easier, and doesn't rely on the unix file system and which > uid the web server runs as for security. But that maybe a misguided > idea... > > 2) There needs to be some kind of authentication and authorization. This > is where it gets hard -- we don't have to solve every problem with > the same tool, but some of our users just need a handful of wiki > users, so built-in authentication & authorization is ok. some > probably want to leverage our existing authentication (for example, > to allow all their students' access) but that may be ok to defer to a > different solution. > > All probably want both authenticated and anonymous users to be able > to read the wiki (but not post). > > 3) If we have to maintain/support the wiki code, we'd like it to be > secure and reasonable to manage. > > 4) they don't all have to be in the same wiki instance, we can run > multiple instances > > Any ideas? I realize this is not an entirely well-formed request, the > staff person who has been looking into this is rather frustrated, so I > thought I'd get some fresh ideas. > > thanks, > > --david > > ps: the same exact questions will be asked about "blogs", because some > people think a wiki is the way to maintain a web site, others prefer blogs... > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
